Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."Winston Churchill: "Madame, i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.